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Events History 2009
 Asian Australian Identities 3 Conference (AAI3)
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Mayu Kanamori is keynote speaker and featured artist for Asian Australian
Identities 3 (AAI3) Conference: Regionalising Asian Australian Identities
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Contact Lenses
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Mayu Kanamori and Vic McEwan collaborate in Contact Lenses, projected and
performed as part of Nighttime Words + Pictures
Curated by Rosie Dennis and Lara Thoms
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A Very Personal Public Apology
Video installations by University of New South Wales School of English, Media and Performing Arts Facilitated by Mayu Kanamori October 19th at the Io Myers Studio & Studio 1, UNSW Kensington Campus
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Artists:
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Alison Hewitt |
| Chumpy Ly |
Tully McDonough |
| Louise Norell |
Patricia Potesta |
| Pebble Power |
Jonathan Villanueva |
| Elspeth Vu-Doan |
Zabrina Wong |
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Images for Life Force
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Charity Soiree For Life Force Cancer Foundation
Photographic Auction by Andrew Shapiro
Artists:
Ben Ali Ong, Tony Amos, Hayley Anderson, Anthony Browell, Catherine Cloran, Sandy Edwards, Bonita Ely, Cassie French, Chris Gleisner, Luke Hardy, Mayu Kanamori, Ian Lever, Julie Martin, Belinda Mason, Rob Scott-Mitchell, Bronwyn Rennex, Moshe Rosenzveig, Lisa Sharkey, Peter Soleness, Zorica Purlija, Dominica Matthews, Jeanne Bastos, Emanuel Lieberfreund and Nick Downing
Sunday 18 October
Stills Gallery, Paddington
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Japanese Cemetery, Broome selected as part of ChillOut Photography Prize and Ballarat International Foto Biennale
ChillOut Photography Prize
Exhibition: March 2009
Novotel Forest Resort, Creswick
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
Sept 4 - Oct 4 2009
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Events History 2008
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In Repose on Thursday Island: November 2008
Artist Workshops: Gab Titui Cultural Centre
Student Workshops: Tagai State College
Exhibition: Gab Titui Cultural Centre
Performance: Thursday Island Cemetery
Artists
Wakako Asano - Dance / choreography
Mayu Kanamori - Visual art
Vic McEwan - Sound Design
Satsuki Odamura - Sound/Koto music
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In Repose Events in Broome:
Japanese Cemetery, Broome
KUYO performance: August 2008
St Mary’s Student Performance
Visual Art and Soundscape Exhibition & Performance:
Gecko Gallery, 9 Short St, Broome
Artists
Wakako Asano - Dance / choreography
Mayu Kanamori - Visual art
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Production Manager: Vic McEwan
The In Repose project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. |
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 Secrets of Sardinia’s Centenarians
by Ben Hills, photographs by Mayu Kanamori
In the middle of the Mediterranean Sea lies a small, remote rocky island which for millennia has been the battleground for the competing empires of the Phoenicians, the Cartheginians, the Romans, Catalans, and the Ottoman Turks. Today, Sardinia is best known as a peaceful sun-drenched holiday destination where in summer new invading hordes of Northern Europeans descend to enjoy the lobster, the lazy lifestyle and the sandy coves of the Costa Smeralda, the Aga Khan’s billionaires’resort. But there is another reason why this magical place has attracted attention from the world’s leading scientists: the people of Sardinia are among the longest-lived on earth – three times as likely to reach the remarkable milestone of 100 as the English, Americans, Australians or almost anyone else on earth.
The Island of the Ancients is published August 1st by Pier 9, an imprint of Murdoch Books, in Australia and the United Kingdom. It will also be published in Brazil by Editora Prumo later this year.
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by Siobhán McHugh
Photographs by Mayu Kanamori
An anthology of oral histories of past and present public housing tenants in New South Wales.
Gerald Stone's best-selling, ‘Who Killed Channel 9?‘, included Shelter from the Storm in its select the bibliography, referring to Siobhan McHugh's extended interview with the elusive media mogul John Alexander, who grew up in public housing in Turramurra, northern Sydney, and rarely grants personal interviews. Due to resulting demand, Shelter from the Storm is now available to download online through eBooks.com
'exploding the stereotypes of people in social housing'. Sydney Morning Herald
The music for CHIKA was composed by Thomas Fitzgerald, with one exquisite work, the Koto Solo by Satsuki Odamura. This unusual collaboration of instruments featuring koto, shakuhachi, wadaiko, acoustic and electric violin and keyboards, blends live music and pre recorded acoustic and electronic sounds with a unique result. It is the sum of these myriad combinations of a surreal reality that have become CHIKA's musical world. The Chika soundtrack can be purchased through the Chika Website.
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CHIKA: A Documentary Performance
The Adelaide Festival Centre's OzAsia Festival 2008
 CHIKA is a multi-layered production which crosses the genres of journalism, visual and performing arts, incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews to tell a story - the story of Chika Honda, a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit.
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Chika
This is the story of Chika Honda.
Chika is a real person. She is a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit. She was one of a Japanese tour group who were arrested for importation of heroin in 1992. She was released on parole in November 2002 and is now living in Japan.
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In 2007 writer Ben Hills and photographer Mayu Kanamori travelled to the small rocky island of Sardinia in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea to record the secrets of the oldest living people in the world. Although this claim to longevity – the 'eternal fountain of youth' – is hotly disputed by the Hunzas, the Cossacks and the Okinawans, it is in fact the Sardinians who come out on top as having the largest percentage of centenarians in the world.
What is their secret? What do they look like? What can we learn from these ‘ancients’ (‘anziani’)? You can find out the answers to these questions and more by reading “The Island of the Ancients” by Ben Hills, published by Murdoch Books, August 2008. However, to see what these anziani look like, I recommend you view Mayu Kanamori’s sensitive and beautiful portraits taken over the two months she and Ben spent in Sardinia. This exhibition at Customs House accompanies the launch of the book on Wednesday August 14.
You will meet Antonio Argiolas, the world’s oldest winemaker (he is on the cover of the book), Raffaela Monne, one of the world’s oldest women at her 109th birthday party and Salvatore Spano who performs folk dancing including a show of prowess by standing on his head. You will also get a feel for the physicality and picturesque quality of this island with its forbidding peaks and gorges and of the villages scattered among them. At one stage five of the world’s oldest people lived here, including the world’s oldest man, Antonio Todde, aged 112.
Through Mayu Kanamori’s respectful portrayals (30 images in all) we see older people through new eyes. They are not separated out and treated as social outcasts. They are respected, loved and honoured as part of the culture, and it appears they have looked after themselves in a way that respects the body. They have certainly done something right! There is something we can all learn from in these wonderful stories and images.
Sandy Edwards, Curator & Director, Arthere
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Photographs of Sardinia’s Centenarians
Exhibition August to September 2008, Customs House Library
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Disturbing Elements
Creative Development with
Rakini Devi, Kenny Feather and Mayu Kanamori
Supported by Australia Council Dance Board, Rakini Devi undertook her first Melbourne based Creative Development Project entitled "Disturbing Elements".
The project culminated in a public showing at The Carlton Courthouse on 30 June & 1 July, 2008.
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On tour with Buzz Dance Theatre
School/Community Residencies in the North West, WA with Artistic Director, Felicity Bott, Sete Tele, Adam Ventour, Rachel Ogle, Josh Mu, David Lloyd, Sharlene Campbell, and Mayu Kanamori. 26 May - 7 June, 2008
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The Chika website has moved, please visit the new domain at chika.asia |
The music for CHIKA was composed by Thomas Fitzgerald, with one exquisite work, the Koto Solo by Satsuki Odamura. This unusual collaboration of instruments featuring koto, shakuhachi, wadaiko, acoustic and electric violin and keyboards, blends live music and pre recorded acoustic and electronic sounds with a unique result. It is the sum of these myriad combinations of a surreal reality that have become CHIKA's musical world. The Chika soundtrack can be purchased through the Chika Website.
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by Siobhán McHugh
Photographs by Mayu Kanamori
An anthology of oral histories of past and present public housing tenants in New South Wales.
Gerald Stone's best-selling, ‘Who Killed Channel 9?‘, included Shelter from the Storm in its select the bibliography, referring to Siobhan McHugh's extended interview with the elusive media mogul John Alexander, who grew up in public housing in Turramurra, northern Sydney, and rarely grants personal interviews. Due to resulting demand, Shelter from the Storm is now available to download online through eBooks.com
'exploding the stereotypes of people in social housing'. Sydney Morning Herald
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 'Growing Roots' in the land of Australia
The perspective of a migrant Japanese artist
As a first generation migrant in Australia, Mayu believes it is vital to hold dialogues with the indigenous peoples of this land and deepen our connection with Australia's land and it's spaces. Through the interplay of images and stories, she uncovers similarities between Japanese and Indigenous spiritualities.
Speaker, Mayu Kanamori
Thursday, 4th September
JH Michell Theatre, Richard Berry Building
Parkville Campus, University of Melbourne
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A site-specific collaborative multi art project with video, sound and performance artists in response to Townsville’s Belgian Gardens Cemetery, Japanese section by Australian and Japanese artists:
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| 2007 |
Bacio della Vita is images and sounds from the island of Sardinia. The photographs were taken by Mayu Kanamori. The music was composed by Jim Denley, using a launedda, a traditional Sardinian wind instrument and voices of some of Sardinia's centenarians.
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Mayu Kanamori's documentation images from "Gathering Ground 2006" including images from "Back on the Block", was on plasma screen display at Redfern Community Centre as part of City of Sydney History Week 2007.
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| 2007 |
Thought of Love Anyway
Thought of Love Anyway was selected for Julie Millowick Photography Award 2007.
It was exhibited at the Old Castlemaine Goal as part of Castlemaine State Festival
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| 2006 |
Mayu Kanamori and Lucy Dann's
part of the other APT
The other APT will coincide with the Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery
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Asahi Art Square, Asakusa, Tokyo |
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Mayu was selected to attend the residential laboratory Time_Place_Space, a five-year, national initiative that aims to challenge, invigorate and strengthen the area of hybrid arts practice in Australia, with an emphasis on performance. |
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Our Story
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Back on the Block
Mayu Kanamori's black and white photographs from 996 were projected onto walls of houses along Eveleigh Street as part of Gathering Ground 2006. |
| 2005 |
Teiju to wa Nandaro
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| 2005 |
Sarah
'Sarah' was a Finalist in The Olive Cotton Award 2005. The Olive Cotton Award is an annual award for excellence in photographic portraiture, funded by Cotton’s family. The exhibition of finalists was exhibited at the Tweed River Art Gallery. |
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One Sunday Underwater
One Sunday Underwater, an underwater photo of a woman/marine mammal, was part of an online auction of artworks to raise money for Greenpeace . |
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Documentation of De Quincey Co’s
Dictionary of Atmospheres
Alice Springs Festival of the Desert 2005, as part of an ongoing collaboration
between Mayu Kanamori & De Quincey Co |
| 2005 |
Judy & Alan
was shortlisted & subsequently exhibited as in the
The Harries National Digital Art Prize
as part of 2005 International Digital Art Awards at the QUT Art Museum, Gardens Point & Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove. ( July - September 2005) |
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Chika Review
(April / May 2005)
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| 2005 |
Wikipedia Entry
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| 2005 |
ABC 7:30 Report
Convicted drug trafficker maintains innocence
Interview by Peter McCutcheon, Presented by Kerry O’Brien. 21st June, 2005
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CHIKA: Radio Program
Broadcast on A World in Your Ear on the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). 1 May 2005
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| 2005 |
Chika
Chika premiered on the 23th of February, 2005 at The C.U.B. Malthouse in Melbourne |
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Chika on ABC Radio National
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| 2004 |
Chika In association with ABC Radio National
Finalist: in the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism
Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special Category |
| 2004 |
RAIHAI
Three short video works, entitled New Year in Wimmera, Hakamairi and Mizuko. Mayu uses a series of still photographs, voices and music to introduce an aspect of the Japanese migrant psyche to Australians. |
| 2004 |
Doing Oz
A series of everyday photographs depicting Japanese migrants in Australia taking on and enjoying the culture of their new home - Australia. |
| 2004 |
One Sunday In Our New
A portrait of Japanese migrants in Australia doing things Australian. Originally commissioned by the Japan Club of Sydney. |
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Chika on ABC Radio National
The radio program Chika featured on ABC Radio National's Radio Eye: Features & Documentaries on the 28th February, 2004. |
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Japan Cultural Centre's 10th Anniversary Forum
Mayu participated as MC in the Japan Cultural Centre's 10th Anniversary Forum on the 25th October. She also worked as an interviewer for the Japan Cultural Centre video production for this event & has been entered in the Artist Archive Project which has been designed to introduce contemporary artists at the Australia and Japan interface. |
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Freedom to Speak
Mayu is proud to have mentored this project, an art website by Hoang Vo in the creation process |
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The Heart of the Journey
A sound & slide documentary which premiered as part of Broome's annual Shinju Matsuri Festival. The radio feature which aired on Radio Eye received a commendation in the 2000 Media Peace Awards. The Heart of the Journey toured nationally as part of the Best of the St Kilda Film Festival & appeared by invitation at the Tokyo Performing Arts Market.
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| 2001 |
Sekai no Pawaa Spotto
The Power Spots in the World
Released 2001
Published by Voice Japan
ISBN4-89976-016-7
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| May 2000 |
Sugao no Australia
Black and white documentary exhibition of images taken in the state of New South Wales between 1995 - 2000. |
| 1999 | Shelter From The Storm
Siobhán McHugh
Allen & Unwin: 1999
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| 1997 | Life... & other great things
Alt espresso bar, Sydney
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